In the first month, come to twist the song, Guotai Min'an happiness comes!
Hezheng Yangge is a representative form of folk song and dance in the New Year activities of the masses in Hezheng County. Every Spring Festival, the local people raise their own funds, organize themselves, and organize the Yangge Team. From the third to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the gongs and drums of hezhengcheng Township sounded, singing and dancing, and everywhere was a festive scene of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new and celebrating the festival.
Hezheng County is located in the south of our state and was once one of the important stations of the ancient Silk Road. With a long history and profound cultural heritage, it provides a superior geographical environment for the development and inheritance of Hezheng Yangge, so that it has a long historical origin and a profound mass foundation, and then develops into a large lineup, rich content, and a wide range of folk song and dance art. Hezheng Yangge began in the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, changed in the Republic of China, and developed after the founding of New China. Especially since the reform and opening up, it has become more prosperous and powerful, from sacrifices and simple juggling to a mass cultural and entertainment activity with distinctive characteristics, a large number of people, a grand scene, and a rich and colorful content.
Yangge, commonly known as "shehuo", is a representative form of folk song and dance of the Han people. The Hezheng Yangge, with its distinctive local characteristics, is unique in the Linxia area and even the whole province, and is the favorite cultural activity of the Hezheng masses during the Spring Festival. According to the Republic of China's "Hezheng County Chronicle", "After three days of entering the first month, the drums of the society will be performed, or the city or the countryside is not informal." On the thirteenth day, the lights were displayed in the city, the villagers came to congratulate with the social drum, and the men and women toured." This not only introduces the situation of the thirteen yangge performances in Hezheng County at that time, but also explains the development and history of the song in the townships and towns of Hezheng.
Hezheng Yangge has been interpreted all the way since the Ming Dynasty, it has a history of more than 600 years, in the long historical process, the more "twisted" the younger, "twisted" out of Linxia, "twisted" to the whole country.
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